Director Corner

I left school at 16 and started selling kitchens door-to-door, after 2-3 years in the kitchen industry I moved to Autoglass as a sales manager. I joined SBS in July 1992 as a driver and then onto roles such as: warehouse, tube stores, trade counter and sales office, before becoming the associate director in 1999. Since, I became the Joint Managing director in 2006 and finally the Managing Director in 2017.

Joined the business back in 1988 where I covered multiple financial roles within the Smith Brothers umbrella. After the potential and growth of the business became apparent, I solely concentrated on SBS Ltd as Financial Director after the turn of the millennium. I currently oversee all accounts, transport and property decisions within the business, which has obviously significantly increased over the years.

Going back to 1977 I started out with R.Pochin & Son (now Pochin) a local plumbing and heating merchant until 1981. I then proceeded to work out of the same premises for the next 18 years with multiple companies due to ownership changes. One of them being PTS who purchased approximately six branches of the 20+ branch network of MCP which went in to administration, where I was Sales Manager in the East Midlands region. Not long after BSS bought PTS I moved across to Smith Brothers in 1999 where I obviously remain today. I have turned my hand at multiple job roles over the years but specialised within sales, becoming Director in 2005.

I started out as an Irrigation Systems Fitter, and then I moved to the Commercial/Mechanical sector working as an Area Sales Representative for Brown & Tawse around the year of 1989. In December 1996, Wolsely substantially acquired Brown & Tawse, and I Spent the following two years as Branch Manager for Pipe Center in Leeds. After, I left to join an Independent merchant called Warrens, which were a one outlet operation in Oldham. Warrens opened up a branch in Leeds and was then shortly followed by branches in Birmingham and London where it subsequently got sold to BSS in December 2005. I then joined Smith Brothers in June 2006 and the rest is history as they say…

I joined SBS in September 2006 after Warren’s acquisition by BSS 9 months earlier. Initially, I started as a Branch Manager for the new Oldham branch which opened in October 2006 before joining the board in 2008. I currently am responsible for five branches that are: Oldham, Birmingham, Thurrock, Heathrow and Merseyside.